Sentences with phrase «slavery question»
The phrase "slavery question" refers to the controversial issue of whether or not slavery should be allowed or abolished. Full definition
Several months later the Compromise of 1850 passed the Congress and President Millard Fillmore proclaimed it a «permanent settlement» of the extension of slavery question.
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They had no choice but to leave the slavery question to a future generation - to his generation.
My slavery question springs from what appears to be your position that my wages are to be viewed as a pool from which the govt can draw to distribute to whom they decide — that is slavery.
In 1834 the student body met for eighteen nights in a revival atmosphere to discuss the pros and cons of the slavery question.
By the time of the General Conference of 1844, held in New York, opinion in the North had coalesced against the gag of silence placed on the slavery question.
In January of 1817 a large group of famous men met in Washington to discuss ways and means of dealing with the slavery question.
Within the Old School the slavery question could not even find a hearing.
The moderates and Southerners combined before the triennial convention of 1841 to keep the slavery question off the floor and to replace a Northern abolitionist board member with a Southern proslavery man.
Although Taney believed that the decision represented a compromise that would settle the slavery question once and for all by transforming a contested political issue into a matter of settled law, it produced the opposite result.
Because of the founders» refusal to press for abolition, the slavery question was bequeathed to Abraham Lincoln to solve — and the Civil War illustrated just how divisive the issue was.